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What happens when inequality meets hate: @Greg_Palast & @Thom_Hartmann discuss the recent spate of mass shootings in America. thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/whe…
#DaytonOhioShooting #ElPasoShooting #GilroyShooting #RacistInChief #EnoughIsEnough
@Thom_Hartmann I actually did a study of this; I compared gun ownership versus killings, nation by nation, and there was no relationship statistically. But there was a relationship between homicides in a nation and the Gini index — that’s what we measure inequality by. gregpalast.com/florida-hondur…
@Thom_Hartmann What all these shooters have in common, they're young white males who are losers who have nothing to lose. gregpalast.com/tee-jay-james-… #DaytonOhioShooting #ElPasoShooting #GilroyShooting #RacistInChief #EnoughIsEnough
@Thom_Hartmann They listen to the rhetoric at Trump rallies, all the crap about white supremacy, because they want to know why they're going nowhere in their lives — and they're told it's because of people of color and immigrants. Trump hands them racism as an excuse and they grab hold of it.
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#DaytonOhioShooting by Connor D. Betts?

#Shooter DIED 5 YEARS AGO.🤔

Same age, same guy pictured, same sister Megan.
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How convenient!

#Dayton Shooter's Obituary (from 5 YEARS AGO) has been DELETED.

They're SCRUBBING the web in SLOPPY attempt to hide their MANUFACTURED crisis.

TOO LATE! #DaytonOhioShooting is #FakeNews. #GunControlNow BS FF

Save/archive EVERYTHING incriminating u find!
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Monica Acosta lives in El Paso. Her niece went to school with Javi Rodriguez, a victim. Her daughter’s friends were at the mall. She left this message after dropping her 7-year-old off at school Monday

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Thoughts on Modernity:

Something that’s bothered me for a while is the particular degree that we fixate on the sort of shooting we saw today.

For example, there have been 293 gun deaths in Chicago, but that doesn’t receive the same sort of attention.

It’s not the death itself.
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others say “thoughts and prayers,”

but both of these responses hint at the agreement with a subtle, underlying fact-

we don’t know how to fix the *causes* of this sort of antisocial violence.

We also can’t agree on what the causes are.
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The modern conservative and progressive positions are emblematic of this-
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1/ #ElPasoShooting

I smell a few rats here and I'm not talking about Baltimore. Because these evil sick bastards use the same methods over and over again, it becomes easy to spot them.
2/

[x] lone white guy shooter
[x] manifesto posted on 8chan
[x] 'brave minority rescued kids' story run on MSM
[x] social media bans for users giving live reports
[x] major discrepancies in number of shooters and casualties

#ElPasoShooting
3/

[x] identity of lone white guy shooter already confirmed.
[x] security footage, portrait pic and name already circulating.
[ ] mentions of 33, 77 and fireworks.

#ElPasoShooting
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2/ Sadly, this isn’t new. We’ve spent the last 5 years chronicling and investigating gun violence in the US.
motherjones.com/politics/2012/…
3/ We created the first open-source database tracking mass shootings in America. motherjones.com/politics/2012/…
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